number 32 • Summer 2017

Authors

Meghan Clyne

articles

Angry with a government that oversteps its proper bounds, today's Americans tend to look to the nation's founders for guidance on restoring a free society. But that model is imperfect, as the American revolutionaries overthrew an old order and launched a new one. Our challenge is more difficult: to live out the freedom the founders made possible. And it calls for a different historical model — that of the pioneers, who preserved the founders' ideals of liberty through the day-to-day practice of self-reliance. To understand how, Americans should turn to the works of the great chronicler of frontier life and frontier freedom: Laura Ingalls Wilder.